Shield-holder for founders&#39; ladles.



No. 713,373. .Patented Nov. 1s. |902. E. GRANT.

SHIELD HOLDER FOR FOUNDERS LADLES.

(Application med sept. so. 1901.

(Nu Model.)

. 2 l. 6, ,y l Munn/1m l; f 1i www EDWARD GRANT, OF BRADLEY, ILLINOIS.

SHIELD-HOLDER FOR FOUNDERS LADLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 713,873, dated November18, 1902.

Application led September 30,1901. Serial No. 77,066. (No model.)

T0 cir/ZZ wzmn it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD GRANT, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and a resident of Bradley, Kankakee county, Illinois,haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Shield-Holders forFounders Ladies, of which the following is a specification.

The general objects of myinvention are to provide convenient means forrigidly yet detachably uniting the ladle and a handle and for fixing ashield in position to protect the hands of the user from the heatradiated from the ladle.

l/Vith these objects in View I provide a handle adapted to hold a shieldand a device to engage the handle on one side and the ladle on the otherand to exert any desired pressure tending to separate them, thusrendering their engagement rigid.

A founders ladle is usually a tapered cup seated wedge-like in a ring atthe end of a handle, and as it is frequently necessary to detach the cupthe latter or its liningis often injured by the blows or jarringrequired to detach it. Such ladles are not ordinarily provided with handshielding devices nor with any devices by which' a shield may beconveniently secured in place. My devices remedy these evils.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows in elevation a common ladlewith my devices added. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation. Fig. 3 is a viewin the direction of the arrow of Fig. 2. Figs. et, 5 show modificationsof the handle. Fig. 6 is a section on the line 6 6, Fig. 2.

In the figures, L represents an ordinary ladle, and E a handle having aterminal ring A to receive the ladle and provided with a shoulder D,Fig. 1, between which and the ladle devices are inserted to press theladle toward that side of the ring opposite the handle, and thus rigidlyunite the two without J of a member J, sliding longitudinally withreference to the projection and locked at any desired point by a bolt K,passing through a slot in the projection and engaging the inember J.Between the body of the block P and the forked upper end of the lever Cis placed a shield S of suitable form and size, and through the lowerend of the lever passes a screwB. In assembling the devices the fork ofthe lever C is passed over the handle, the block P is brought againstthe ladle, as shown, and the shield is put in place, the member J isadjust-ed to meet the shoulder on the handle and fixed to the projectionP, and the screw B is then screwed against the ladle with some force,the distance through which it advances being to some extent dependent onthe taper of the ladle. Under the action of the screw the parts,reacting against the shoulder D, press the ladle above and below thering and force it against the opposite side of the latter, thus clampinghandle, shield, ladle, and other parts into a rigid whole, and obviouslyretraction of the screw B again frees the parts.

In Fig. 2 is shown the modification of securing the shield to the blockP by, boltsF and giving the handle a sharp bend at Dl to form thedesired shoulder. In Fig. 4 the handle is shown as downwardly curved andcut away to form a shoulder D2, extending entirely around it, and Fig. 5shows a straight handle provided with an annular flange forming ashoulder D3.

Many other changes in construction and arrangement may be made withoutpassing beyond the limits of my invention, which, broadly considered,involves a ladle,a handle, engaging the ladle and resisting the movementof the latter toward the side opposite the handle, and devices reactingagainst the handle and tending to force the ladle toward theside justmentioned, whereby the ladle and handle are made to form a rigid whole.I wish,

therefore, to claim my invention broadly as l tending to force thehandle and ladle apart, whereby the parts become one rigid Whole untilthe adjustment is changed, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination with a ladle and a handle engaging the same andresisting its relative movementtoward the side opposite the handle, ofan intermediate device resting against the ladle on one side andengaging the handle on the other, and means for forcibly adjusting thespan of said device, to press the handle and ladle oppositely and thusbind the parts into a rigid Whole.

3. The combination With a ladle and a handle detachably engaging thesame, of a lever reacting centrally against the handle and pressing withits arms against the ladle, and means for at Will adjusting itspressure.

4. The combination with a ladle and a handle engaging the same, of adevice reacting against the handle and acting to press the ladle fromthe handle, and a detachable shield receiving and transmitting suchpressure and thereby itself held in place.

5. The combination with the ladle, of a handle having a ring encirclingthe ladle, ofa lever reacting centrally against the handle and pressingwith its arms against the ladle, and a shield held in place by thepressure of one arm, substantially as set forth.

6. The combination Witha ladle, of a han-- dle having a ring encirclingthe ladle, a lever reacting centrally against the handle and pressingthe ladle With its arms, and a screw passing through one of said armsand tending to swing the lever by pressing against the ladle.

'7. The combination with the ladle and a handle having a ring encirclingthe ladle, and a shoulder at some distance from the latter, of thelever, the block pivoted to the lever and extending against saidshoulder,the shield interposed between the lever-arm and block, and thescrew passing through the other lever-arm, substantially as set forth.

8. The combination With the ladle and the handle having theladle-encircling ring and a shoulder at some distance from the ladle, ofthe lever, the block pivoted to the lever and havingthe adjustableprojection meeting said shoulder, the shield between said block and onelever-arm, and the screw Working in the other arm against the ladle.

Signed at Kankakee, Illinois, this 28th day of August, 1901.

EDWARD GRANT.

Witnesses:

M. S. ON EIL, JOHN B. GRIsWoLD.

